“The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney’s office, President Bush’s office is exempt from a presidential order requiring government agencies that handle classified national security information to submit to oversight by an independent federal watchdog,” the Los Angeles Times will report Saturday, RAW STORY has learned. Excerpts:

“The executive order that Bush issued in March 2003 covers all government agencies that are part of the executive branch and, although it doesn’t specifically say so, was not meant to apply to the vice president’s office or the president’s office, a White House spokesman said.”

Who knew?

So… if neither Bush nor Cheney are actually in the executive branch, then who has all this accumulation of unitary executive power been for?

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Having listened to the White House presser yesterday in which Perino maintained continually that it was the cretin in chief’s executive order and he was the decider (Okay, the decider wasn’t her words), it would seem that the c-i-c is establishing a principle of not being responsible even for his own edict. That would mean that all those signing statements are also inactive if they prove inconvenient. We now have government by Whim. Or Whatever I Say At The Moment Goes.